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The Philosophy of Homelessness - Barely Being (Paperback)
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The Philosophy of Homelessness - Barely Being (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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The Philosophy of Homelessness is borne out of a five-year
ethnographic research project involving being with a group of
chronically homeless people in Chester. A small city located in the
northwest of the UK, Chester is economically supported by its
heritage and the tourism that this attracts. In an obvious sense,
the awkwardness of the phrase 'being with a group of chronically
homeless people' is regrettable. Nevertheless, this unfortunately
self-conscious phrase is significant, with its importance residing
in the word and concept of 'being'. Whilst philosophical
understandings of being are often thought about in rather abstract
terms, The Philosophy of Homelessness explores the daily experience
of chronic homelessness from a perspective that renders its
ontological impress in ways that are explicitly felt, often in
forms that are overtly political and exclusionary in character,
especially in terms of identity and belonging within the city.
Themes that emerge from the work, which coalesce around living in
the margins of the city and experiencing only the shadow of the
right to be, include: the economy of chronic addiction and its
impact upon the body; the relationship between chronic homelessness
and the law; and chronic homelessness and identity and desire.
These themes are explored through a number of thinkers, though
predominantly: Nietzsche, Lacan, Bourdieu and Kristeva. This work
is likely to be of interest to anyone working in the fields of:
criminology; sociology, especially those areas concerned with
marginalised groups; and philosophy in its socially and politically
engaged forms; as well as to those with an interest in
homelessness.
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